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WO2001048080A1
WO2001048080A1 PCT/US2000/034707 US0034707W WO0148080A1 WO 2001048080 A1 WO2001048080 A1 WO 2001048080A1 US 0034707 W US0034707 W US 0034707W WO 0148080 A1 WO0148080 A1 WO 0148080A1
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  • thermoplastic polyolefin incorporating polypropylene reinforced with delaminated or exfoliated cation-exchanging multi- layered silicates.
  • the first approach (also described by Kawasumi et al . ) was to blend a quaternary ammonium exchanged multi-layered silicate with a maleic anhydride modified polypropylene oligomer and then add an unmodified polypropylene polymer.
  • the maleic anhydride modified polypropylene oligomer had sufficient polarity to exfoliate the silicate under the shear conditions of the blending process.
  • the second approach of Usuki et al . was to blend a quaternary ammonium exchanged multi-layered silicate with a maleic anhydride modified polypropylene polymer.
  • the maleic anhydride modified polypropylene polymer had sufficient polarity to exfoliate the silicate under the shear conditions of the blending process.
  • Usuki et al . pointed out that when a maleic anhydride modified polypropylene oligmer was not used, then the average molecular weight of the maleic anhydride modified polypropylene polymer should be limited to about 100,000.
  • Thermoplastic olefin is a mechanical blend of a polyolefin (such as polypropylene) and a thermoplastic elastomer (such as EPDM or ultra low density polyethylene) .
  • a polyolefin such as polypropylene
  • a thermoplastic elastomer such as EPDM or ultra low density polyethylene
  • the instant invention provides a polypropylene based TPO nanocomposite with a significantly increased low temperature impact toughness.
  • the key to achieving such toughness is the use of maleated polypropylene polymer having a molecular weight greater than 100,000.
  • the instant invention is a thermoplastic olefin nanocomposite composition, comprising: a maleated polypropylene polymer phase having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000; a cation exchanging layered silicate material dispersed in the maleated polypropylene phase so that more than one half of the cation exchanging layered silicate material is present as one, two, three, four or five layer units upon examination by electron microscopy; and a thermoplastic elastomer phase interdispersed with the maleated polypropylene phase.
  • the instant invention is a polypropylene nanocomposite composition, comprising: a maleated polypropylene polymer having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000; and a cation exchanging layered silicate material dispersed in the maleated polypropylene phase so that more than one half of the cation exchanging layered silicate material is present as one, two, three, four or five layer units upon examination by electron microscopy.
  • An article of manufacture comprising an object formed of a composition comprising: a maleated polypropylene polymer phase having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000; a cation exchanging layered silicate material dispersed in the maleated polypropylene phase so that more than one half of the cation exchanging layered silicate material is present as one, two, three, four or five layer units upon examination by electron microscopy; and a thermoplastic elastomer phase interdispersed with the maleated polypropylene phase.
  • An article of manufacture comprising an object formed of a composition comprising: a maleated polypropylene polymer having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000; and a cation exchanging layered silicate material dispersed in the maleated polypropylene so that more than one half of the cation exchanging layered silicate material is present as one, two, three, four or five layer units upon examination by electron microscopy.
  • thermoplastic olefin nanocomposite composition comprising the steps of: mixing a softened or melted polypropylene polymer with an organic peroxide and maleic anhydride to form a maleated polypropylene polymer; mixing the maleated polypropylene polymer with an onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material to form a maleated polypropylene nanocomposite; and mixing the maleated polypropylene nancomposiite with a thermoplastic elastomer, the process characterized by the maleated polypropylene having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000.
  • a process for producing a polypropylene nanocomposite composition comprising the steps of: mixing a softened or melted polypropylene polymer with an organic peroxide and maleic anhydride to form a maleated polypropylene polymer; and mixing the maleated polypropylene polymer with an onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material to form a maleated polypropylene nanocomposite, the process characterized by the maleated polypropylene having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000.
  • Fig. 1 is an idealized drawing made from an electron photomicrographic examination of the maleated polypropylene phase of a TPO composition of the instant invention showing more than one half of the cation exchanging layered silicate material being present as one, two, three, four or five layer units.
  • thermoplastic olefin (TPO) nanocomposite of the instant invention comprises a maleated polypropylene polymer phase having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000, a cation exchanging layered silicate material dispersed in the maleated polypropylene so that more than one half of the cation exchanging layered silicate material is present as one, two, three, four or five layer units upon examination by electron microscopy (and most preferably, more than one half of the material is so apparent as one, two or three layer units) and a thermoplastic elastomer phase interdispersed with the maleated polypropylene phase.
  • the weight average molecular weight of the maleated polypropylene polymer can be significantly greater than 100,000, for example, it can be greater than 150,000 or even greater than 250, 000.
  • Fig. 1 therein is shown a drawing reproduction of an electron photomicrograph of the maleated polypropylene polymer phase of a TPO composition of the instant invention.
  • the layered silicate material is shown delaminated or exfoliated as: three single layer units, one two layer unit, one three layer unit, one four layer unit, one five layer unit and two eight layer units.
  • a one layer unit typically is a platlet about 1-10 nanometers thick and 100-1000 nanometers wide.
  • weight average molecular weight is well known in the instant art and can be determined by, for example, gel permeation chromatography .
  • cation exchanging layered silicate material is well known in the instant art and includes the "clay mineral” of United States Patent 5,973,053, fully incorporated herein by reference. Examples of cation exchanging layered silicate materials include:
  • Zeolitic layered materials such as ITQ-2, MCM- 22 precursor, exfoliated ferrierite and exfoliated mordenite.
  • any of the naturally occurring or synthetic cation exchanging layered silicate clay materials may be used in the present invention.
  • Preferred are smectite clays, including montmorillonite, bidelite, saponite and hectorite.
  • an "onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material” is a cation exchanging layered silicate material that has been exposed to onium cations (usually oranic quaternary ammonium compounds) so that the original cation of the cation exchanging layered silicate material is exchanged, at least in part, for the onium cations.
  • Onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate materials are well known in the instant art, for example, see the above mentioned United States Patent 5,973,053. Onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate materials are commercially available from, for example, Southern Clay Company in the United States.
  • the term "maleated polypropylene" means a polypropylene containing more than one tenth of one percent of maleic anhydride grafted to the polypropylene. Maleated polypropylene is commercially available from several sources. Polymer synthesis may be the best way to tailor the molecular weight, molecular weight distribution and the extent of maleic anhydride grafting to the polymer.
  • maleated polypropylene can be made by mixing softened or melted unmodified polypropylene with maleic anhydride and an organic peroxide.
  • the weight percent of maleic anhydride of the maleated polypropylene is in the range of from two tenths of one percent to ten percent. Most preferably, the weight percent of maleic anhydride of the maleated polypropylene is in the range of from one half of one percent to two percent.
  • the amount of cation exchanging layered silicate material used can range from one to fifty percent by weight of the composition. Preferably, the amount of cation exchanging layered silicate material used ranges from three to twelve percent by weight of the composition.
  • the polypropylene nanocomposite composition of the instant invention is obtained when the above discussed thermoplastic elastomer is not used.
  • the TPO nanocomposite or polyropylene nanocomposite of the instant invention can also contain conventional macro sized fillers such as a carbonate, glass fibers, kaolin, talc, glass beads, graphite fibers and carbon black.
  • the maleated polypropylene of the instant invention can be high crystallinity maleated polypropylene.
  • the term "high crystallinity" is defined herein as material which has a heat of melting of the maleated polypropylene crystallites of more than 85 Joules per gram of amorphous and crystalline phases of the polymer using the determination outlined on pages 448-494 of Volume 4 of the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, 2 nd Edition, 1986, John Wiley & Sons.
  • the TPO nanocomposite or polypropylene nanocomposite of the instant invention can also comprise non-maleated polypropylene having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000.
  • the TPO nanocomposite or polypropylene nanocomposite of the instant invention is essentially free of maleated polypropylene oligomer, that is, the concentration of maleated polypropylene oligomer is less than five percent of the total amount of polypropylene.
  • oligomer herein means a polymer having a molecular weight of less than one thousand.
  • the non-maleated polypropylene can be any type of polypropylene, for example, block co-polymers of polypropylene and ethylene .
  • the TPO nanocomposite of the instant invention can be made by mixing a heat softened or melted polypropylene polymer of sufficiently high molecular weight with an organic peroxide and maleic anhydride to form a maleated polypropylene polymer which can then mixed with an onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material and a thermoplastic elastomer.
  • Another way of making the TPO nanocomposite of the instant invention is to mix a heat softened or melted polypropylene polymer of sufficiently high molecular weight with an organic peroxide and maleic anhydride to form a maleated polypropylene polymer, then mix the maleated polypropylene polymer with an onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material and then to mix in the thermoplastic elastomer.
  • the polypropylene nanocomposite of the instant invention can be made by mixing a heat softened or melted polypropylene polymer of sufficiently high molecular weight with an organic peroxide and maleic anhydride to form a maleated polypropylene polymer which can then mixed w th an onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material.
  • the TPO nanocomposite or polypropylene nanocomposite of the instant invention can be used, for example, to make articles of manufacture such as parts for motor vehicles, appliances, business machines or construction articles.
  • maleated polypropylene having a weight average molecular weight of 150,000 (laboratory prepared by mixing ninety five parts high molecular weight polypropylene with three parts of maleic anhydride and six tenths part di-cumyl peroxide in a BANBURY brand polymer mixer at 200 rpm and 180-200 degrees Celsius for three minutes), thirty three parts by weight of thermoplastic elastomer (AFFINITY 8180 brand low density polyethylene from Dow) and ten parts by weight onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material (montmorillonite treated with dimethyl, dihydrogenated tallow quaternary ammonium compound from Southern Clay) are mixed in a BANBURY brand polymer mixer at 100 rpm and a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius for ten minutes to produce a thermoplastic olefin nanocomposite having a flex modulus of 183,000 pounds per square inch and a notched IZOD impact strength at 30 degrees below zero Centigrade of 11.6 foot pound per
  • thermoplastic elastomer AFFINITY 8180 brand low density polyethylene from Dow
  • onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material montmorillonite treated with dimethyl, dihydrogenated tallow quaternary ammonium compound from Southern Clay
  • thermoplastic elastomer AFFINITY 8180 brand low density polyethylene from Dow
  • onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material montmorillonite treated with dimethyl, dihydrogenated tallow quaternary ammonium compound from Southern Clay
  • thermoplastic elastomer AFFINITY 8180 brand low density polyethylene from Dow
  • talc ten parts by weight onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material (montmorillonite treated with dimethyl, dihydrogenated tallow quaternary ammonium compound from Southern Clay)
  • onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material montmorillonite treated with dimethyl, dihydrogenated tallow quaternary ammonium compound from Southern Clay
  • EXAMPLE 5 Ninety parts by weight of maleated polypropylene having a weight average molecular weight of 200,000, ten parts by weight of onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material (montmorillonite treated with dimethyl, dihydrogenated tallow quaternary ammonium compound from Southern Clay) and two tenths part by weight of IRGONOX
  • B225 brand antioxidant are mixed in a HAAKE brand polymer mixer at 200 rpm and a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius for ten minutes to produce a polypropylene nanocomposite. Electron microscopy examination of the polypropylene nanocomposite shows that more than one half of the onium treated cation exchanging layered silicate material is present as single, double or triple layer units.

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DE60016046T DE60016046T2 (de) 1999-12-29 2000-12-20 Thermoplastisches nanokomposit auf basis von polypropylen und dessen herstellung
AT00986634T ATE296332T1 (de) 1999-12-29 2000-12-20 Thermoplastisches nanokomposit auf basis von polypropylen und dessen herstellung
MXPA02006567A MXPA02006567A (es) 1999-12-29 2000-12-20 Nanocompuesto de olefina termoplastica.
BR0016948-0A BR0016948A (pt) 1999-12-29 2000-12-20 Composições de nanocompósitos de olefina termoplástica e de polipropileno, processos para produzì-las e artigos de manufatura compreendendo objetos formados de tais composições
CA002395782A CA2395782A1 (en) 1999-12-29 2000-12-20 Thermoplastic olefin nanocomposite
JP2001548611A JP2003518542A (ja) 1999-12-29 2000-12-20 熱可塑性オレフィンナノ複合体
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